Photographic apparatus



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n PHOTOGRPHIC APPARATUS Filed July 18, 19558 '7 Sheets-Sheet 6 Patented Dec. v17, 1940 PHOTOGRAPHIO APPARATUS Morris Schwartz, Sunnyside, Long Island, and

William Castedello, Huntington, N. Y., assignors; by direct and mesne assignments, to The Kalart Company, Inc., New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application July 1s, i938, serial No. 220,444

9 claims. (ci. :i5- 44) Our invention relates tophotographic picture taking apparatus, especially of the kind that comprise a combination of a range finder, and a photo-flash synchronizer integral to said 'apparatus and the aforesaid elements are so incorporated in ,the camera apparatus as to form a complete operative unit.

An object of Athis invention is to provide a complete, easily portable and compact camera apparatus including therein a range finder for automatically locating and focusing objects to be photographed by the camera apparatus aforesaid.

A further object of the invention is to provide adjusting means in said camera apparatus to adjustably adapt said range finder and view finder for different focal lengths of lenses.

Othervobjects will be seen as the description of our invention proceeds.

Our invention has a continuing relation to U. S. Patent No. 2,163,159, issued June 20, 1939 to Morris Schwartz.

Referring to the figures- Fig. 1 is a view of a.. camera body with the range nder placed' on the upper part of said camera body.

Fig. 2 is a section through the camera taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 7 showing the battery' arrangement, and the position of the range finder in the' camera when the flash light is plugged into the camera body.

v Fig. 7n is a partial cross-sectional view of the camera. l

Fig. 8 shows the range finder mechanism which is included in Fig. 2 when viewed in the direction of the section 8-8 of said gure. The `finder illustrated in Fig. 8 is shown in non-operative position.

Fig. 9 shows the relation of the parts of the finder mechanism shown in Fig. 8 in operative position.

'55j Fig. 10 shows the relation of parts of the finder illustrated in Fig. 8 with respect to adjustment fo differentA types lenses.

Fig. 11 is a side view of the range nder take: on the line 'l I--H of Fig. 10.

Fig. 12 is a top view of the range finder takel on the line I2-I2 of Fig. 8.

Fig. 13 is a section through the range finde arrangement shown in Fig. 8 takenl on the linl |3--I3 of said ligure.

Fig. 14 is a section taken on the-line Ile-lI of Fig. 8.

Fig. 15 is a modified view of an eyepiece ani upper objective of a. range finder.

Fig. 16 isa view showing the scaled adjust ments of said finder. This view is taken on th` line Iii-i6 of Fig. 8.

Fig. 17 is a cross-section view of the nnde: shown in Fig. 11 taken on the line Il-i'l showin: the position of the lenses; also showing .the re fleeting mirrors.

Fig. V18 is a section taken on the line I8--I8 o Fig. 17 showing the arrangement for decreasini the' size of the aperture of 'the viewing lens o the range inder. This arrangement is shown i1 non-operative position.

Fig. 19 shows .the position of parts of the viewI ing mask in position for correction of the viev finder parallax.

Fig. 20 shows the relation of parts of the rangl finder mask shown in Fig. 18 when said finder i: adjusted for decreasing the angle of vision tc coincide withthe angle of the camerav lens whicl involves the size of aperture of the viewing lens Fig. 2,1, shows the reflecting mirror taken or the line 2i 2| "of Fig. 17.

Referring to Fig. 2, the camera body 50 comprises a compartment for holding a set of battery cells on one side of the camera, body 52 anc a range nder on the opposite side of said bod; designated at 53. The battery cells 5l are connected in series and said battery is grounded t( the camera body by means of a spring contaci 54, the latter being so arranged that said sprin@ contact can be slid out -of normal position tc allow refilling of the camera with battery cell renewals.

In addition to the aforesaid grounding connection for the battery, the spring contact 54 prevents the battery from dropping out 0f the camra. A cover 55 covers ythe battery cell rell aperture 56. The battery cells 5i are insulated from the camera proper by'means of insulatior tubing 56 and also bythe insulation washer l1 The bottomsection of the battery cells 5i is connected through a. spring 58 to the electrical connection 59. The connection 56 extends across to the opposite side of the camera 53 and terminates at 59a and 59b in the sockets 60 and l Pins 19 and 80 serve to limit the movement of the rails 16, 11.J The rails 16, 11 are held together by cross-members 8| -and 82.. The rails 13 and 14 are held together by means of crossmembers 83 and 84. secured to the camera bed 10. (See Fig. 6.)

One end oi the bellows 85 is secured at designation v|16 to the body of the camera, (Fig. 7.) the opposite end at 81 being secured to the lens support 88. The lens support 88 has sliding shoes 69 and 99, which slide into the rails 85 and 86 when the Winged thumb release 9| is operated by the camera operator. The pins 19 and 80 serve in this case to limit the movement of the lens support The lens and the shutter 9|a are held to the lens support 88 by a plate 92. Y The flash light release arrangement 93 is secured directly to the lens support 89. .A slidably mounted bar 94 operates the flash light release arrangement in timed relation to the camera shutter.

An impinging arm 95 operates the shutter 9| when said impinging arm 95 depresses the shutter arm 96.

-The electrical connection 59 is insulated from the body of the camera at 62. The apertures 63 and 64 of the sockets 50 and 6| are covered through the medium of covers 65, 66.

The range finder 61 is located in the space between the sockets 60 and 6|.

The range finder 61 has two viewing objective lenses 68 and 69 which extend on the outside of the camera 50.

The arrangement shown in Fig. .3 includes four .cells of battery instead of 3 cells and the electrlcal connection 59 connects the additional cell of battery 5| to the battery 5|.

Referring to Fig. 44. In this figure the camera 50 is'shown in open position. The bed 10 of said camera .carries parallel rails 1|, 12. Another pair of rails 13, 14 slide into rails 1| and 12, said sliding being attained by the turning of the knob 15.

A further addition of a pair of rails 16 and 11. so arranged that said railsv is provided and are can slide on rails 13 spring 18, said spring 11 free to slide in the rails 13 and 14.

Preparatory to housing the lens support, the

and 14 by pressing upon a vpin |29 which is secured at the bottomof the rail 13, rides over a tapered side section |30 of the forked hinging arm |26, thus depressing said arm against the spring |21 and allowing l |35 o! the rectangular casing |32.

the pin |22`Vr (Fig. '1) to be housed into the bodyr of the camera. and thus allowing the strut |20 to be released and which will enable the proper housing of the bellows and lens support 88.

The range nnder 61 includes a rectangular casing |3|. Another rectangular casing .|32 is held to said casing j 3|. The rectangular casing |3| has a pair o! t on screws |33 and |34. The trunnion screw |33 is threaded'through the side (See Fig. 21.) The trunnion screw |34 is threaded in an eccentric bushing |36 which can be turned by inserting a screw driver in the slot |31. The eccentric bushing |36 rotates in an opening |38 of the side |39 of, the rectangular casing |3|. A trunnion pin, |38 is located between said trunnion screws |33 and |34. -v

A three angled block |40.ls secured to the trun- The rails 1| and 12 are ably balanced on a pivot point |60.

lpin |43 is secured to the 18 leaving the rails 16 and nion screw |38. The block |40 has a mirror |4| and an arm |42 which is also secured to the block. |40. The arm |42 has a pin |43 which extends through the side |35 of the rectangular casing |32.

A viewing glass |44 is located at the lower part of the casing I3|. A lens |45 is located at the upper part of the casing |41. Another lens |46 divides the lower part of the casing |3|. from the upper part thereof.

A transparent mirror |41 is angularly posi` tioned above the lens |46. An eye piece |48. having a lens |49 faces the transparent mirror |41.

Referring to Figs. '1, a hinging arm |50 swings at the pivot bearing |5| in such a manner that 15 rocking bar |55 also swings on a hinged arm |56 20 and a pivoted arm |51. pivot bearing |58.

The arm |56 swings at The hinged bar |55 is oper- The position of the -pivot point |60 can be adjustably moved by sliding a barl that is held in place 25 through the medium of screw |62.

A scale |62 (Fig. 16) and a scale pointer |64 serve as a means for adjusting the pivot point |60 (Fig. 8) into the desired position.

A tooth member |59 integral to the arm |56 30 is in operable contact with a hinged segment |65 that swings at pivot bearing |66. A bar |61 is moved upwardly by means of the hinging movement of the hinged segment |65. Said bar |61 carries a tapered surface plate |68.

The bar |61 is held to the segment |65 at |69 and has a spring |10 which holds said bar |61 under tension. A at spring |1| presses against the pin |43.

In Fig. 9 is shown the relation of parts of the 40 rangeI iinder mechanism in operation. When the tooth member |59 of the hinged arm |56 is pushed against the hinged segment |65, the bar |61 moves upwards. The tapered surface plate |68 movesalso in the same direction as the bar 45 |61.l Asthe width of the plate |68 decreases at the bottom thereof, there is an allowable play sothat the pin |43 moves to the right. As the hinging arm |42 (see Fig. 17)', the mirror |4| is hinged on said arm, 50

therefore, when viewing through the viewing tube |48v the image of an object is projected through the lens |45 and is reflected upon the transparent mirror |41.

A composite image of through the viewing glass |44 and reflects upon thev mirror |4| and projecting through the lens |46 on to the transparent mirror |41.

The hinging arm |50 has another arm |12 that pivots at |13 (Fig. 1). tapered cut-out |14. A tapered pin |15 fits into said tapered cut-out |14. The tapered pin |15 is secured to the rail 11 (Fig. 4). When the camera operator turns the focusing knob 15 for focusing the-camera, the rail 11 which is moved during the aforementioned operation and which carries the tapered pin |15, pushes against the operates the h"`ginf' arm |50 operating the vm |52 (See Fig. 35

the object also projects 55 Said arm |12 has a 60 The tooth mem- 70 e" object from the mirror 15 |4| entering through the lens |46 will coincide with the image of the object projecting through the lens |45 and reflecting on the transparent mirror |41. When this occurs the correctI focus has been attained.

A slidably mounted bar |11 is made adjustable on the scale |18 (Fig. 1l) by the turning of the screw |19. The 'sliding bar |11 carries aswivel point |80 so that the bar |61 can swivel on said point. An infinity adjusting screw |11aL is mounted on the bar |11. The function of said screw is to obtain the correct infinity point when said camera is assembled. In the application of different type of lenses, it is necessary to adjust the bar |11 to conform to the type of lens that is mounted on said camera. After the bar |11 has been moved either up or down to the required position to obtain the aforesaid lens adjustment, the screw |19 lin slot |11b (Fig. l1).is screwed tight and holds the bar |11 in the desired position. The I adjusting screw |11 is threaded into the bar |11 and the pointed end of tance between the range finder, the camera lens and the object to be photographed might militate against taking a good sharp picture.

A at covered member |82 is mounted on the outside of the rectangular casing |3| at |8| (Fig. 17), in such a manner lthat the space area between |8| and the member |82 can be used for inserting an aperture adjusting mechanism. (See Fig. 18.) The aperture adjusting mechanism 0 |83 comprises a flat plate |84 having a rectangular opening |85'. A leg shaped fl'at plate |86 and a. leg shaped fiat plate |81 are moved on the surface of theplate |84v in such a manner that the rectangular opening |81 formed by the `legs vof the leg shaped plates |86 and. |81 can be increased or decreased when moving the top |88 of the hinging lever |89.l The hnging lever |89 pivots at |98- and is held to the leg shaped flat plate |86 at |9I, andthe leg shaped plate |81 at |92. Scale markings |93 serve as a. guide lfor manual adjustment of the hinging arm |89.

The fiat plate |94 also has slots |94 and |95, said slots being provided to permit Va parallax adjustment of said plate.

An extension section |96 of .the iiat plate |84 has a tapered surface |91 (see Fig. 9) which is in touch with the extension |98 of the arm |61'so that when the bar I 61 advances upwardly, said flat plate |84 is moved towards the center of the lens |45. When the hinging bar |61 returns to its original position, the flat plate |84 moves away from the center of the lens.

Operation ject. The knob 15 is turned until two vimages of the object being viewed are merged in the range iinder. The merging of the two aforesaid images is obtained through the viewing glass |44 which then reflects upon the mirror I4 I and which in turn is projected upon the mirror |41 through the lens |46. Said image then merges with the image observed through the eye piece of the same object entering through the lens |45 and project- I ing through the transparent mirror |41. When both images merge, as already stated, a correct focus is obtained.

It is understood that the particular photographic apparatus described above is intended to be merely illustrative and not limitative of the invention, since it is obvious that the invention may be effected by apparatus arranged in other different ways, within the scope of the claims.

Now having described our invention, what we claim is:

1. In a photographic apparatus including a casing, said casing having a range finder unit attached thereto, said apparatus having a bellows, one end of said bellows secured to an objective ca rrier, said carrier having a lens and shutter means operating in conjunction with said lens,

said carrier secured to a slidably mounted carriagefsaid carriage manually operable through the medium of a rotating hand screw, said hand screw mounted on said carriage, said range finder including a mirror. reflector affixed upon a tilting block, thereflection of objects through an eyelet aperture-upon said tilting reflector being projected upon an angularly positioned and fixed trans- `parent mirror, said mirror transparent to direct viewing in addition to saidv reflection of objects through an adjacent eyelet aperture thereby producing a duplicate image of said objects upon said fixed reflector, said tilting block coacting with said sliding carriage by linkage means said linkage means including hinging arm means the rearward movement thereof being under spring said range finder unit, and having a tapered cut out portion, a pin member operably fitted in said tapered cut out portion, said pin member integral to said carriage, said linkage means thereby following the reciprocal movement of the carriage aforesaid.

2. Ina photographic apparatus, said apparatus having a casing, a range i'lnder attachable to said casing, said range nder having two mirrors one fixed and the other movable, said movable mirror attached to and movable with a swinging bar, a 'contact pin attached to said swinging bar, a reciprocally movable arm in operable contact with said contact pin, said arm having a contacting surface, said surface on an inclined plane tension, said hinging arm means being pivoted in I the tilting movement of said mirrorA is made through the medium of the adjustable movementl ofvsaid-objective carrier, said linkage means including ahinging arm, the rearward movement thereof being impelled by spring tension,'an extending member pivotally attached to said hinging arm, said extending member having a de tent at the outer end thereof, a pin projection 3. In a photographic apparatus including its objective carrier, a range :finder mounted on said apparatus, said range finder including in a container two mirrors. one movable relative to the other, a swinging bar pivotally operable in said range finder, said movable or tilting mirror attached to said swinging bar at the lower end thereof, a pin attached to the upper end of said bar, said pin in slidably operable contact with a tapered surface plate, an adjustable bar integral to said plate, said bar pivote-d to a swinging segment, said segment in operable contact with a rocking har, .said rocking hai causing the reciprocal movement of said pin along said tapered surface plate thereby causing said tilting mirror to move varie-,bly in accordance with the angle oi the plane of said surface plate, said rocking bar in operable contact with. linkage rneariasaid linkage means contiguous to and moved by .said objective carrier whereby the tiltnioveznent of said mirror is made through the mediurn'oi the adjustable movement of the objective carrier aforesaid.

fi. The structure as set forth in claim 3, said rocking bar balanced upon a pivot point, said pivot point adjustably movable, said adjustment in accordance with the focal length of the lens that is attached to the objective carrier aforesaid.

5. The structure as set forth in claim 3, said rocking bar balanced upon a pivot point, said pivot point integral to a movable plate, a scale pointer attached to said plate, a measured scale adjacent to said pointer whereby the adjusted poformed on an inclined plane at one end thereof,

said inclined plane changing the angular relation of said rocking bar with respect to the linkage means aforesaid.

i. The structure as set forth in claim 3, said adjustable bar having a slot, a screw and washer set in said slot, said screw screwed into said tapered surface plate adjustably securing said plate with the adjustable bai' aforesaid.

3. The structure as set forth in claim 3, and a slidable plate attached to the wall of said range finder, a setting'screw screwed through said plate and said Wall, said screw in. contact with said ad instable bar, the movement oi" said plate for varying adjustments of said adjustable bar enabling the correct setting oi the range finder aforesaid..

9. The structure as set forth in claim 3, a slidable plate attached to the wall of said range finder, a setting screw and pointer thereon, said setting screw screwed through said plate and said wall, said screw in contact with said adjustable bar, the movement oi said plate enabling varying adjustments of said 'adjustable bar, a scale attached to the outer Wall of said range finder and contiguous to said pointer thereby enabling the setting of adjustment of the range finder aforesaid.'

MORRS SCHWARTZ. y WILLIAM CASTEDELLO. 

